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ROSCOE    CONKLING. 


"  |je  bib  not  fall 

1Tihe  brooping  flofoers  that  no  man  notieetb, 
^ut  lihe  a  grrat  branch  of  some  stalcln  Iret, 
Tunt  in  a  tempest  anb  flung  bofon  to  beatb, 
CI)ith  foitb  green  leafage."  *  * 


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SENATE  AND  ASSEMBLY 


State  of  gcw  larfe, 


IN    RELATION    TO   THE    DEATH    OF 


EX-SENATOR  ROSCOE  CONKLING, 


HELD    AT   THE 


CAPITOL,  MAY  9,  1888. 


ALBANY: 
WEED,    PARSONS   AND    COMPANY, 

1889. 


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IN   RELATION  TO  THE  DEATH  OF 


Ex-Senator   Roscoe  Conkling. 


18,  1888. 

Mr.  HUSTED,  addressing  the  Chair,  spoke  as 
follows  : 

Mr.  SPEAKER.  —  At  fifty  minutes  after  one  this 
morning  ROSCOE  CONKLING  passed  away.  When 
I  make  that  statement  I  think  this  House  will  unani 
mously  concur  with  me  that  we  have  a  right  to  devi 
ate  from  the  usual  course  whereby  we  offer  resolutions 
five  minutes  before  the  hour  of  adjournment. 

I  think  this  House  will  concur  with  me  that  a  man 
so  distinguished  as  he  has  been,  that  a  man  who  has 
served  this  State  'so  many  years  so  faithfully  and  so 
well,  who  won  for  himself  the  first  rank  among  Ameri- 


can  orators,  American  publicists  and  American  states 
men,  deserves  especial  consideration  from  the  members 
of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

It  is,  sir,  but  nine  years  ago  since,  in  this  room,  I 
nominated  him  for  Senator  of  the  United  States.  I 
did  it  then  with  pleasure  and  with  pride.  With  grief 
and  sorrow  I  now  announce  his  death,  and  I  beg 
leave,  sir,  to  submit  the  following  resolutions,  which  I 
will  read  myself: 

Resolved,  That  the  Assembly  learns  with  deep  sorrow  of  the  death 
of  Hon.  ROSCOE  CONKLING. 

Resolved,  That  his  distinguished  public  services,  his  high  standard 
of  public  honor,  and  his  official  and  personal  integrity,  merit  the 
acknowledgment  of  the  people  of  this  State. 

Resolved,  That  as  Representative  and  Senator  in  Congress  he  won 
the  admiration  of  his  colleagues  and  the  plaudits  of  the  Nation. 

Resolved  (if  the  Senate  concur),  That  a  joint  committee,  consisting 
of  five  Senators  and  nine  Members  of  the  Assembly,  be  appointed 
by  the  presiding  officers  of  the  respective  Houses,  to  prepare  a  suit 
able  memorial  of  the  public  services  of  the  deceased  orator  and  states 
man,  and  to  report  to  the  Legislature  what  further  action  shall  be 
taken  in  order  to  pay  to  his  memory  the  respectful  tribute  of  their 
sorrow. 

Resolved,  That  out  of  respect  to  his  memory  this  House  do  now 
adjourn. 

The  resolutions,  by  a  rising  vote,  were  unani 
mously  adopted. 


fin 

APRIL  18,  1888. 

Senator  COGGESHALL  offered  the  following  : 

Resolved,  That  the  Senate  of  the  State  of  New  York  learns  with 
deep  sorrow  and  profound  regret  of  the  death  of  the  Hon.  ROSCOE 
CONKLING.  His  long  and  distinguished  services  in  Congress  as  a 
Representative  and  Senator  from  the  State  of  New  York,  his  great 
intellectual  attainments  and  brilliant  record,  his  honesty  of  public 
career  and  integrity,  his  loyalty  of  friendship  and  nobility  of  char 
acter,  his  illustrious  and  successful  achievements,  make  his  name 
and  fame  the  common  heritage  of  our  State  and  Nation,  and  enshrine 
him  in  the  hearts  of  the  people. 

Resolved  (if  the  Assembly  concur),  That  a  committee  of  five  Sena 
tors  and  nine  Members  of  the  Assembly  be  appointed  by  the  Presi 
dent  of  the  Senate  and  the  Speaker  of  the  Assembly  to  attend  the 
funeral  of  Mr.  CONKLING,  and  to  make  arrangements  for  appropriate 
memorial  services  by  the  Legislature. 

Senators  COGGESHALL,  Low  and  CANTOR  spoke 
to  the  resolutions,  and  they  were  unanimously 
adopted  by  a  rising  vote. 

The  Assembly  sent  for  concurrence  the  follow 
ing  resolutions: 

Resolved,  That  the  Assembly  learns  with  deep  sorrow  of  the  death 
of  Hon.  ROSCOE  CONKLING. 

Resolved,  That  his  distinguished  public  services,  his  high  standard 
of  public  honor,  and  his  official  and  personal  integrity,  merit  the 
acknowledgment  of  the  people  of  this  State. 


legislature    gvocccdincjs. 


Resolved,  That  as  a  Republican  Senator  in  Congress  he  has  won 
the  admiration  of  his  colleagues  and  the  plaudits  of  the  Nation. 

Resolved  (if  the  Senate  concur),  That  a  joint  committee,  consisting 
of  five  Senators  and  nine  Members  of  the  Assembly,  be  appointed 
by  the  presiding  officers  of  the  respective  Houses,  to  prepare  a  suit 
able  memorial  to  the  public  services  of  the  deceased  orator  and  states 
man,  and  to  report  to  the  Legislature  what  further  action  shall  be 
taken  in  order  to  pay  to  his  memory  the  respectful  tribute  of  their 
sorrow;  also, 

Resolved  (if  the  Senate  concur),  That  a  joint  committee  of  nine 
Members  of  the  Assembly  and  six  Senators  be  appointed  to  attend 
the  funeral  of  ROSCOE  CONKI.ING. 

The  PRESIDENT. -- The  subject-matter  of  the 
resolutions  sent  by  the  Assembly  has  been  al 
ready  adopted  by  resolutions  just  introduced  and 
passed  in  the  Senate,  and  no  action  is  necessary 
upon  the  resolutions  of  the  Assembly. 

Senator  COGGESHALL  said  : 

Mr.  PRESIDENT. —  It  is  not  my  purpose  to  pronounce 
any  extended  eulogy  upon  the  character,  life  and  ser 
vices  of  the  distinguished  man  whose  death  we  so  pro 
foundly  regret.  No  eulogies,  no  words  of  praise,  no 
arch  of  victory,  no  monumental  pile  is  needed  to  en 
dear  him  to  the  people.  The  story  of  his  useful  and 
honorable  life  illumines  the  brightest  pages  of  our  his 
tory,  and  the  fruits  of  his  incessant  labors,  read  and 
known  of  all  men,  give  luster  to  his  name  and  will 
perpetuate  his  memory.  "  He  was  a  man,  take  him 


Jitt    | 


for  all  in  all,  we  shall  not  look  upon  his  like  again;"  a 
man  of  tireless  activity  and  industry,  and  unsurpassed 
integrity  in  public,  professional  and  private  life. 

In  the  councils  of  the  Nation  he  bore  a  conspicuous 
and  honorable  part  in  the  legislation  necessary  for  the 
preservation  and  reconstruction  of  the  Union,  and  is 
one  of  the  most  distinguished  figures  in  our  political 
history. 

During  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  of  public  ser 
vice,  when  strong  and  brilliant  men  of  both  political 
parties  fell,  either  by  temptation  or  wicked  and  mali 
cious  denunciation,  ROSCOE  CONKLlNG's  fair  fame  and 
honor  was  untouched. 

He  was  above  alike  corruption  and  suspicion.  In 
an  age  when  vituperation  and  calumny  are  the  stock 
in  trade  of  political  warfare,  he  bore  himself  with  such 
dignity  and  uprightness  as  to  command  the  respect 
of  all. 

Although  assailed  and  hounded  and  set  upon  by 
those  who  were  jealous  of  his  well-earned  and  richly- 
deserved  success  —  although  misrepresented,  misjudged 
and  wronged,  and  his  proud,  sensitive,  high-spirited 
and  chivalric  soul  wounded — yet  the  smell  of  fire  was 
not  on  his  garment. 

All  the  shafts  of  malice  fell  idle  and  harmless  against 
the  impenetrable  armor  of  uprightness  and  self-respect, 
with  which  he  was  fully  panoplied. 

He  was  above  them  all.  He  rested  then,  as  now, 
''the  knight  without  fear  and  without  reproach,"  in 
the  perpetual  sunshine  of  an  undying  fame. 


Sincere  in  his  convictions,  he  despised  shams  and 
false  pretense  and  hypocritical  professions. 

He  thought  for  himself,  and  spoke  what  he  thought. 
He  was  loyal  to  his  own  convictions.  Friendship  could 
not  swerve  him  from  the  path  of  duty.  Ambition 
could  not  tempt  him.  Enemies  did  not  and  could  not 
daunt  him.  He  was  an  open,  honorable,  manly  foe; 
a  loyal,  true  and  constant  friend.  He  never  turned 
the  back  of  his  hand  to  a  friend,  nor  his  back  to  an 
enemy.  He  never  "  crooked  the  pregnant  hinges  of 
the  knee  that  thrift  might  follow  fawning."  He  never 
masqueraded.  He  was,  as  you  saw  him,  the  same  at 
all  times,  in  all  places,  and  under  all  circumstances  — 
the  soul  of  honor. 

"  Faithful  found  among  the  faithless. 
Unshaken,  unseduced,   unterrified; 
His  loyalty  kept,  his  love,  his  zeal, 
Nor  number,  nor  example, 
With  him  wrought  to  swerve  from  truth, 
Or  change  his  constant  mind." 

At  the  full  meridian  of  intellectual  greatness,  with 
many  years  of  usefulness  and  renown  before  him,  at 
a  time  when,  more  than  ever  before,  his  magnificent 
leadership  was  required  in  the  party  of  which  he  was 
so  many  years  a  conspicuous  member,  this  great  and 
good,  honest,  true  and  incorruptible  man  has  closed 
his  eyes  in  the  dreamless  sleep  of  death. 

Why  this  must  be  is  beyond  human  ken.  Why  this 
brave,  strong,  noble,  lion-hearted  man  should  go  out 
from  the  activities  and  grand  possibilities  of  a  life 

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such  as  his,  and  when  he  was  so  much  needed  by  his 
party,  his  State  and  country,  we  know  not. 

To   the  stern  decrees  of  an   All-wise  and   Overruling; 

o 

Providence  we  bow  with   grief-stricken   hearts.     At   the 
portals  of  his  grave  the  whole  civilized  world  mourns. 

"  He  did  not  fall 
Like  drooping  flowers  that  no  man  noticeth, 

But  like  a  great  branch  of  some  stately  tree, 
Rent  in  a  tempest  and  flung  down  to  death, 

Thick  with  green  leafage  —  so  that  piteously 
Each  passer  by  that  ruin  shuddereth, 

And  saith,   'The  gap  this  breach  hath  left  is  wide, 

The  loss  thereof  can  never  be  supplied.'" 

As  a  born  leader  of  men,  as  statesman  or  legislator, 
as  lawyer,  as  citizen,  as  friend,  we  honor  him  and  re 
vere  his  memory. 

To  the  loving  and  beloved  wife  and  daughter,  to  his 
family,  to  the  world,  he  has  left  a  legacy  greater,  bet 
ter  and  grander  than  earthly  riches  —  a  good  name,  a 
reputation  untarnished,  an  integrity  unimpaired ;  for, 
with  Aristides,  he  could  exclaim :  "  These  are  clean 
hands." 

Senator  Low  said : 

The  Angel  of  Death  has  never  taken  a  more  kingly 
man,  nor  a  more  noble  representative  of  all  that  is  no 
blest  and  greatest  in  our  civilization.  I  have  known 
ROSCOE  CONKLING  well  for  the  past  thirty  years;  and 
among  the  great  men  who  have  honored  their  country 
and  the  world  during  that  eventful  period,  he  was  the 

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peer  of  the  greatest  and  wisest  and  noblest  of  them  all. 
He  was  a  born  leader  of  men,  an  intellectual  giant ;  he 
never  found  his  equal  on  the  platform  or  in  the  arena 
of  the  Senate  chamber.  In  his  long  service  and  public 
life  he  was  free  from  all  taint  or  suspicion  of  wrong  or 
improper  acts.  He  set  an  example  well  worthy  of  the 
imitation  of  the  young  men  of  the  country.  His  loss 
will  be  long  and  keenly  felt,  and  the  mourning  for  his 
untimely  taking  off  will  be  deep  and  lasting. 

Senator  CANTOR  said : 

I  feel,  Mr.  President,  that  some  expression  of  opinion 
should  be  given  by  those  to  whom  ROSCOE  CONKLING 
was  politically  opposed  for  so  many  years  of  his  public 
life.  The  Democratic  party,  to  which  he  was  always  so 
honorably  opposed,  and  vigorously  opposed,  found  in 
him  an  upright,  an  honorable,  a  consistent  and  a  persist 
ent  political  foe.  He  was  of  that  class  of  men  who  rely 
absolutely  upon  his  conviction  of  what  was  proper  and 
right,  upon  principle.  He  always  advocated  from  a  con 
sistency  of  purpose,  and  a  direct  manly  belief  that  it 
was  just  and  honorable.  He  was  of  that  class  of  men,  so 
rare  in  our  community,  who  are  governed  absolutely  by 
principle  and  conviction,  and  who  rise,  at  times,  higher 
than  party  exactions.  The  life  of  ROSCOE  CONKLING 
was  one  that  was  fraught  with  great  and  noble  deeds. 
As  a  Member  of  Congress  he  was  a  representative  faith 
ful  to  his  trust,  faithful  to  his  people  in  the  advocacy  of 
all  public  measures  which,  in  his  judgment,  redounded 
to  the  public  benefit.  Faithful  in  all  respects.  His 

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services  will  be  forever  recognized  and  appreciated,  not 
only  by  the  people  of  the  district  which  he  so  well  rep 
resented,  and  by  the  people  of  the  State  whose  Sena 
tor  he  was  for  two  terms  in  the  Senate  of  the  United 
States ;  but,  sir,  he  has  found  a  place  in  the  hearts  of 
all  the  people  who  believe  that  honesty  of  purpose  and 
devotion  to  country  rise  paramount  to  all  other  consid 
erations.  I  heartily  second  the  adoption  of  the  resolu 
tion. 

Senator  COGGESHALL  offered  the  following  : 

Resolved,    As   a  token    of    respect    to    the   memory  of    the    deceased, 
that  the  Senate  do  now  adjourn. 

The  resolution  was  adopted. 


10,  1888. 
Mr.    BEATTY   offered   the   following   resolution  : 

Resolved  (if  the  Senate  concur),  That  a  joint  committee  of  nine 
Members  of  the  Assembly  and  six  Senators  be  appointed  to  attend 
the  funeral  of  Hon.  ROSCOE  CONKLING. 

The  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted. 


10,  1888. 
Senator  COGGESHALL  offered  the  following  : 

WHEREAS,  The  funeral  of  the  Hon.  ROSCOE  CONKLING  will  occur 
in  the  city  of  New  York  on  Friday,  the  twentieth  instant;  and 

WHEREAS,  His  distinguished  services  in  public  life  and  his  great 
eminence  as  a  statesman,  call  for  a  marked  expression  of  the  high 
esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  the  people  of  the  State,  therefore, 
be  it 

Resolved  (if  the  Assembly  concur),  That  when  the  Senate  and  As 
sembly  adjourn  this  evening,  it  be  until  Monday  evening  at  a  quarter 
past  eight  o'clock. 

The  PRESIDENT  put  the  question,  and  the  reso 
lution  was  adopted. 

The  PRESIDENT  announced  the  following  com 
mittees,  pursuant  to  the  concurrent  resolutions  of 
the  Senate  and  Assembly,  to  attend  the  funeral 
of  the  Hon.  ROSCOE  CONKLING,  and  to  make  ar 
rangements  for  appropriate  memorial  services  by 
the  Legislature :  Senators  COGGESHALL,  LEWIS, 
SWEET,  LAUGHLIN,  MURPHY  and  REILLY  ;  also, 
to  attend  the  funeral  in  the  city  of  New  York  : 
Senators  COGGESHALL,  SWEET,  VAN  COTT,  O'CoN- 
NOR,  CANTOR  and  STABLER. 

The  Assembly  returned  the  resolution  relative 

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to  the  death  of  the  Hon.  ROSCOE  CONKLING,  with 
a  message  that  they  had  concurred  in  the  pas 
sage  of  the  same  without  amendment,  and  had 
appointed  as  a  committee  on  the  part  of  the 
House,  Messrs.  HUSTED,  GALLAGHER,  H UNITING, 
ENZ,  BEATTY,  BLUMENTHAL,  JOHN  MARTIN,  GOR 
DON  and  KENT. 


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19,  1888. 


The    Senate    sent   for   concurrence   the   followr 
resolutions  : 


Resolved,  That  the  Senate  of  the  State  of  New  York  learns  with 
deep  sorrow  and  profound  regret  of  the  death  of  the  Hon.  ROSCOE 
CONKLING.  His  long  and  distinguished  services  in  Congress  as  a 
Representative  and  Senator  from  the  State  of  New  York,  his  great 
intellectual  attainments  and  brilliant  record,  his  honesty  of  public 
career  and  integrity,  his  loyalty  of  friendship  and  nobility  of  char 
acter,  his  illustrious  and  successful  achievements,  make  his  name 
and  fame  the  common  heritage  of  our  State  and  Nation,  and  enshrine 
him  in  the  hearts  of  the  people. 

Resolved  (if  the  Senate  concur),  That  a  committee  of  five  Sena 
tors  and  nine  Members  of  the  Assembly  be  appointed  by  the  Presi 
dent  of  the  Senate  and  the  Speaker  of  the  Assembly  to  attend  the 
funeral  of  Mr.  CONKLING,  and  to  make  arrangements  for  appropriate 
memorial  services  by  the  Legislature. 

The  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted. 

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The  SPEAKER  announced  the  following  com 
mittee  to  attend  the  funeral  of  the  Hon.  RUSCOE 
CONKLING  and  to  draft  resolutions:  Mr.  Hus- 
TED,  Mr.  GALLAGHER,  Mr.  H UNITING,  Mr.  ENZ, 
Mr.  BEATTY,  Mr.  BLUMENTHAL,  Mr.  JOHN  MAR 
TIN,  Mr.  GORDON  and  Mr.  KENT. 

The  Senate  sent  for  concurrence  the  follow 
ing  resolution  : 

WHEREAS,  The  funeral  of  the  Hon.  ROSCOE  CONKLING  will  occur 
in  the  city  of  New  York  on  Friday,  the  twentieth  instant;  and 

WHEREAS,  His  distinguished  services  in  public  life  and  his  great 
eminence  as  a  statesman,  call  for  a  marked  expression  of  the  esteem 
with  which  he  was  held  by  the  people  of  this  State,  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved  (if  the  Assembly  concur),  That  when  the  Senate  and  As 
sembly  adjourn  this  evening,  it  be  until  Monday  evening  next  at  a 
quarter  past  eight  o'clock. 

The  resolution  was  adopted. 


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April  30,  1888. 

The  Senate  sent   for   concurrence  a  resolution 
in  the  words  following  : 

Resolved  (if  the  Assembly  concur),  That  a  joint  committee  having  in 
charge  the  exercises  in  memory  of  the  late  ROSCOE  CONKLING,  be  re 
quested  to  invite  to  attend  the  exercises  the  members  of  the  present 
Congress,  and  such  members  of  preceding  sessions  as  sat  in  the  House 
or  Senate  with  Mr.  CONKLING. 

The  resolution  was  adopted. 


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groceedings  in  |loint  Cession 


SENATE  AND  ASSEMBLY, 


of  f^tustc  : 

0,  1888. 


The  Legislature  having  met  in  Joint  Session 
at  the  Academy  of  Music,  in  the  city  of  Al 
bany,  in  pursuance  of  arrangements  made  by  the 
Joint  Memorial  Committee,  the  Hon.  EDWARD 
F.  JONES,  Lieutenant-Governor  and  President  of 
the  Senate,  in  the  Chair,  on  calling  the  assem 
blage  to  order,  said  : 

It  is  of  ROSCOE  CONKLING  we  would  speak.  Not 
in  words  of  praise,  for  none  that  we  could  utter  would 
place  him  higher  in  the  estimation  of  his  countrymen, 
for  his  fame  now  perches  on  the  highest  pinnacle  of 
renown. 

Not  in  tones  of  affection,  for  the  tender  language  of 
love  is  the  sacred  property  of  those  nearer  and  dearer 
to  him  than  we,  who  only  knew  him  as  a  public  man, 
can  ever  be. 


in  g0tnt 


Our  language  is  inspired  by  higher  emotions.  It  is 
with  tributes  of  respect  that  we  would  humbly  endow 
his  memory. 

When  death  claims  as  its  victim  an  honored  states 
man,  the  prejudices  of  partisanship  fade  away,  and  in 
this  instance,  we  not  only  remember  that  the  man  was 
great,  but  that  he  honored  his  greatness  with  his  char 
acter,  and  all  hasten  to  reverence  his  virtues.  We 
meet  on  this  occasion  and  vie  each  with  the  other 
in  strewing  his  grave  with  never-fading  flowers.  We 
assemble  this  evening  for  the  purpose  of  embalming 
his  memory  with  tributes  of  eloquence. 

The  Committee  having  the  arrangements  in  charge, 
have  wisely  selected  to  perform  this  duty,  the  one  who 
could  do  it  best,  ROSCOE  CONKLING'S  friend,  the  Hon. 
ROBERT  G.  INGERSOLL,  whom  it  is  my  privilege  to 
present  to  you. 


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ctworia! 


ROSCOE    CONKLING 


05. 


DELIVERED    BEKOKE    THE 


New  York  State  Legislature,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 


ROSCOE  CONKLING  -  -  a  great  man, 
an  orator,  a  statesman,  a  law 
yer,  a  distinguished  citizen  of  the 
Republic,  in  the  zenith  of  his  fame 
and  power  has  reached  his  journey's 
end ;  and  we  are  met,  here  in  the 
city  of  his  birth,  to  pay  our  tribute  to 
his  worth  and  work.  He  earned  and 
held  a  proud  position  in  the  public 
thought.  He  stood  for  independ 
ence,  for  courage,  and  above  all  for 
absolute  integrity,  and  his  name  was 
known  and  honored  by  many  mil 
lions  of  his  fellow  men. 

The    literature   of    many   lands    is 
rich  with  the  tributes  that  gratitude, 


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admiration  and  love  have  paid  to 
the  great  and  honored  dead.  These 
tributes  disclose  the  character  of  na 
tions,  the  ideals  of  the  human  race. 
In  them  we  find  the  estimates  of 
greatness- -the  deeds  and  lives  that 
challenged  praise  and  thrilled  the 
hearts  of  men. 

In  the  presence  of  death,  the  good 
man  judges  as  he  would  be  judged. 
He  knows  that  men  are  only  frag 
ments  -  -  that  the  greatest  walk  in 
shadow,  and  that  faults  and  failures 
mingle  with  the  lives  of  all. 

In  the  grave  should  be  buried  the 
prejudices  and  passions  born  of  con 
flict.  Charity  should  hold  the  scales 
in  which  are  weighed  the  deeds  of 
men.  Peculiarities,  traits  born  of  lo 
cality  and  surroundings  —  these  are 
j  <~j 

but  the  dust  of  the  race  —  these  are 


accidents,  drapery,  clothes,  fashions, 
that  have  nothing  to  do  with  the 
man  except  to  hide  his  character. 
They  are  the  clouds  that  cling  to 
mountains.  Time  gives  us  clearer 
vision.  That  which  was  merely  local 
fades  away.  The  words  of  envy  are 
forgotten,  and  all  there  is  of  sterling 
worth  remains.  He  who  was  called 
a  partisan  is  a  patriot.  The  revolu 
tionist  and  the  outlaw  are  the  found 
ers  of  nations,  and  he  who  was  re 
garded  as  a  scheming,  selfish  politi 
cian  becomes  a  statesman,  a  philoso 
pher,  whose  words  and  deeds  shed 
light. 

Fortunate  is  that  nation  great 
enough  to  know  the  great.  When 
a  great  man  dies  —  one  who  has 
nobly  fought  the  battle  of  a  life, 
who  has  been  faithful  to  every  trust, 


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and  has  uttered  his  highest,  no 
blest  thought- -one  who  has  stood 
proudly  by  the  right  in  spite  of  jeer 
and  taunt,  neither  stopped  by  foe 
nor  swerved  by  friend-  -in  honoring 
him,  in  speaking  words  of  praise 
and  love  above  his  dust,  we  pay  a 
tribute  to  ourselves. 

How  poor  this  world  would  be 
without  its  graves,  without  the  mem 
ories  of  its  mighty  dead.  Only  the 
voiceless  speak  forever. 

Intelligence,  integrity  and  courage 
are  the  great  pillars  that  support  the 
State. 

Above  all,  the  citizens  of  a  free 
nation  should  honor  the  brave  and 
independent  man-  -the  man  of  stain 
less  integrity,  of  will  and  intellect 
ual  force.  Such  men  are  the  At 
lases  on  whose  mighty  shoulders 


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rest  the  great  fabric  of  the  repub 
lic.  Flatterers,  cringers,  crawlers, 
time-servers  are  the  dangerous  citi 
zens  of  a  democracy.  They  who 
gain  applause  and  power  by  pan 
dering  to  the  mistakes,  the  preju 
dices  and  passions  of  the  multitude, 
are  the  enemies  of  liberty. 

When  the  intelligent  submit  to 
the  clamor  of  the  many,  anarchy  be 
gins  and  the  republic  reaches  the 
edge  of  chaos.  Mediocrity,  touched 
with  ambition,  flatters  the  base  and 
calumniates  the  great,  while  the  true 
patriot,  who  will  do  neither,  is  often 
sacrificed. 

In  a  government  of  the  people 
a  leader  should  be  a  teacher --he 
should  carry  the  torch  of  truth. 

Most  people  are  the  slaves  of 
habit  —  followers  of  custom  —  believ- 


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ers  in  the  wisdom  of  the  past  —  and 
were  it  not  for  brave  and  splendid 
souls,  "the  dust  of  antique  time 
would  lie  unswept,  and  mountain 
ous  error  be  too  highly  .heaped  for 
truth  to  overpeer."  Custom  is  a 
prison,  locked  and  barred  by  those 
who  long  ago  were  dust,  the  keys 
of  which  are  in  the  keeping  of  the 

dead. 

• 

Nothing  is  grander  than  when  a 
strong,  intrepid  man  breaks  chains, 
levels  walls  and  breasts  the  many- 
headed  mob  like  some  great  cliff 
that  meets  and  mocks  the  innumer 
able  billows  of  the  sea. 

The  politician  hastens  to  agree 
with  the  majority-  -insists  that  their 
prejudice  is  patriotism,  that  their 
ignorance  is  wisdom; --not  that  he 
loves  them,  but  because  he  loves 


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himself.  The  statesman,  the  real 
reformer,  points  out  the  mistakes  of 
the  multitude,  attacks  the  prejudices 
of  his  countrymen,  laughs  at  their 
follies,  denounces  their  cruelties,  en 
lightens  and  enlarges  their  minds 
and  educates  the  conscience-  -not 
because  he  loves  himself,  but  be 
cause  he  loves  and  serves  the  right 
and  wishes  to  make  his  country 
great  and  free. 

With  him  defeat  is  but  a  spur  to 
further  effort.  He  who  refuses  to 
stoop,  who  cannot  be  bribed  by  the 
promise  of  success,  or  the  fear  of  fail 
ure —  who  walks  the  highway  of  the 
right,  and  in  disaster  stands  erect, 
is  the  only  victor.  Nothing  is  more 
despicable  than  to  reach  fame  by 
crawling,-  -position  by  cringing. 

When   real    history   shall  be  writ- 


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ten  by  the  truthful  and  the  wise, 
these  men,  these  kneelers  at  the 
shrines  of  chance  and  fraud,  these 
brazen  idols  worshipped  once  as 
gods,  will  be  the  very  food  of  scorn, 
while  those  who  bore  the  burden  of 
defeat,  who  earned  and  kept  their 
self-respect,  who  would  not  bow  to 
man  or  men  for  place  or  power,  will 
wear  upon  their  brows  the  laurel 
mingled  with  the  oak. 

ROSCOE  CONKLING  was  a  man  of 
superb  courage. 

He  not  only  acted  without  fear, 
but  he  had  that  fortitude  of  soul 
that  bears  the  consequences  of  the 
course  pursued  without  complaint. 
He  was  charged  with  being  proud. 
The  charge  was  true — he  was  proud. 
His  knees  were  as  inflexible  as  the 
4tunwedgeable  and  gnarled  oak,"  but 


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he  was  not  vain.  Vanity  rests  on 
the  opinion  of  others  —  pride,  on  our 
own.  The  source  of  vanity  is  from 
without  -  -  of  pride,  from  within. 
Vanity  is  a  vane  that  turns,  a  wil 
low  that  bends,  with  every  breeze 
-pride  is  the  oak  that  defies  the 
storm.  One  is  cloud-  -the  other 
rock.  One  is  weakness  —  the  other 
strength. 

This  imperious  man  entered  pub 
lic  life  in  the  dawn  of  the  reforma 
tion- -at  a  time  when  the  country 
needed  men  of  pride,  of  principle 
and  courage.  The  institution  of 
slavery  had  poisoned  all  the  springs 
of  power.  Before  this  crime  am 
bition  fell  upon  its  knees,- -politi 
cians,  judges,  clergymen,  and  mer 
chant-princes  bowed  low  and  hum 
bly,  with  their  hats  in  their  hands. 


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Jtx 


The  real  friend  of  man  was  de 
nounced  as  the  enemy  of  his  coun 
try-  -the  real  enemy  of  the  human 
race  was  called  a  statesman  and  a 
patriot.  Slavery  was  the  bond  and 
pledge  of  peace,  of  union,  and  na 
tional  greatness.  The  temple  of 
American  liberty  was  finished-  -the 
auction-block  was  the  corner-stone. 

It  is  hard  to  conceive  of  the  utter 
demoralization,  of  the  political  blind 
ness  and  immorality,  of  the  patriotic 
dishonesty,  of  the  cruelty  and  deg 
radation  of  a  people  who  supple 
mented  the  incomparable  Declara 
tion  of  Independence  with  the  Fugi 
tive  Slave  Law. 

Think  of  the  honored  statesmen 
of  that  ignoble  time  who  wallowed 
in  this  mire,  and  who,  decorated 
with  dripping  filth,  received  the 


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plaudits  of  their  fellow-men.  The 
noble,  the  really  patriotic,  were  the 
victims  of  mobs,  and  the  shameless 
were  clad  in  the  robes  of  office. 

But  let  us  speak  no  word  of 
blame-  -let  us  feel  that  each  one 
acted  according  to  his  light- -ac 
cording  to  his  darkness. 

At  last  the  conflict  came.  The 
hosts  of  light  and  darkness  pre 
pared  to  meet  upon  the  fields  of 
war.  The  question  was  presented : 
Shall  the  Republic  be  slave  or 
free?  The  Republican  party  had 
triumphed  at  the  polls.  The  great 
est  man  in  our  history  was  Presi 
dent  elect.  The  victors  were  ap 
palled-  -they  shrank  from  the  great 
responsibility  of  success.  In  the 
presence  of  rebellion  they  hesitated 
-they  offered  to  return  the  fruits 


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of  victory.  Hoping  to  avert  war 
they  were  willing  that  slavery  should 
become  immortal.  An  amendment 
to  the  Constitution  was  proposed,  to 
the  effect  that  no  subsequent  amend 
ment  should  ever  be  made  that  in 
any  way  should  interfere  with  the 
right  of  man  to  steal  his  fellow-men. 

This,  the  most  marvelous  propo 
sition  ever  submitted  to  a  Congress 
of  civilized  men,  received  in  the 
House  an  overwhelming  majority, 
and  the  necessary  two-thirds  in  the 
Senate.  The  Republican  party,  in 
the  moment  of  its  triumph,  deserted 
every  principle  for  which  it  had  so 
gallantly  contended,  and  with  the 
trembling  hands  of  fear  laid  its  con 
victions  on  the  altar  of  compromise. 

The  Old  Guard,  numbering  but 
sixty-five  in  the  House,  stood  as 


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firm  as  the  three  hundred  at  Ther 
mopylae.  Thaddeus  Stevens-  -as 
maliciously  right  as  any  other  man 
was  ever  wrong-  -refused  to  kneel. 
Owen  Lovejoy,  remembering  his 
brother's  noble  blood,  refused  to 
surrender,  and  on  the  edge  of  dis 
union,  in  the  shadow  of  civil  war, 
with  the  air  filled  with  sounds  of 
dreadful  preparation,  while  the  Re 
publican  party  was  retracing  its 
steps,  ROSCOE  CONKLING  voted  No. 
This  puts  a  wreath  of  glory  on  his 
tomb.  From  that  vote  to  the  last 
moment  of  his  life  he  was  a  cham 
pion  of  equal  rights,  stanch  and 
stalwart. 

From  that  moment  he  stood  in 
the  front  rank.  He  never  wavered 
and  he  never  swerved.  By  his  de 
votion  to  principle  -  -  his  courage, 


the  splendor  of  his  diction, --by  his 
varied  and  profound  knowledge,  his 
conscientious  devotion  to  the  great 
cause,  and  by  his  intellectual  scope 
and  grasp,  he  won  and  held  the 
admiration  of  his  fellow-men. 

Disasters  in  the  field,  reverses  at 
the  polls,  did  not  and  could  not 
shake  his  courage  or  his  faith.  He 
knew  the  ghastly  meaning  of  defeat. 
He  knew  that  the  great  ship  that 
slavery  sought  to  strand  and  wreck 
was  freighted  with  the  world's  sub- 
limest  hope. 

He  battled  for  a  nation's  life- 
for  the  rights  of  slaves-  -the  dignity 
of  labor,  and  the  liberty  of  all.  He 
guarded  with  a  father's  care  the 
rights  of  the  hunted,  the  hated  and 
despised.  He  attacked  the  savage 
statutes  of  the  reconstructed  States 


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with  a  torrent  of  invective,  scorn  and 
execration.  He  was  not  satisfied 
until  the  freedman  was  an  Ameri 
can  Citizen  -  -  clothed  with  every 
civil  right-  -until  the  Constitution 
was  his  shield-  -until  the  ballot  was 
his  sword. 

And  long  after  we  are  dead,  the 
colored  man  in  this  and  other  lands 
will  speak  his  name  in  reverence 
and  love.  Others  wavered,  but  he 
stood  firm ;  some  were  false,  but  he 
was  proudly  true-  -fearlessly  faith 
ful  unto  death. 

He  gladly,  proudly  grasped  the 
hands  of  colored  men  who  stood 
with  him  as  makers  of  our  laws, 
and  treated  them  as  equals  and  as 
friends.  The  cry  of  "social  equal 
ity"  coined  and  uttered  by  the  cruel 
and  the  base,  was  to  him  the  ex- 


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pression  of  a  great  and  splendid 
truth.  He  knew  that  no  man  can 
be  the  equal  of  one  he  robs --that 
the  intelligent  and  unjust  are  not  the 
superiors  of  the  ignorant  and  hon 
est- -and  he  also  felt,  and  proudly 
felt,  that  if  he  were  not  too  great  to 
reach  the  hand  of  help  and  recog 
nition  to  the  slave,  no  other  Senator 
could  rightfully  refuse. 

We  rise  by  raising  others --and 
he  who  stoops  above  the  fallen, 
stands  erect. 

Nothing  can  be  grander  than  to 
sow  the  seeds  of  noble  thoughts  and 
virtuous  deeds-  -to  liberate  the  bod 
ies  and  the  souls  of  men-  -to  earn 
the  grateful  homage  of  a  race --and 
then,  in  life's  last  shadowy  hour,  to 
know  that  the  historian  of  Liberty  will 
be  compelled  to  write  your  name. 


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There  are  no  words  intense  enough, 
-with  heart  enough-  -to  express 
my  admiration  for  the  great  and 
gallant  souls  who  have  in  every  age 
and  every  land  upheld  the  right, 
and  who  have  lived  and  died  for 
freedom's  sake. 

In  our  lives  have  been  the  grand 
est  years  that  man  has  lived,  that 
Time  has  measured  by  the  flight 
of  worlds. 

The  history  of  that  great  Party 
that  let  the  oppressed  go  free  —  that 
lifted  our  nation  from  the  depths 
of  savagery  to  freedom's  cloudless 
heights,  and  tore  with  holy  hands 
from  every  law  the  words  that  sanc 
tified  the  cruelty  of  man,  is  the 
most  glorious  in  the  annals  of  our 
race.  Never  before  was  there  such 
a  moral  exaltation-  -never  a  party 


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with  a  purpose  so  pure  and  high. 
It  was  the  embodied  conscience  of 
a  nation,  the  enthusiasm  of  a  peo 
ple  guided  by  wisdom,  the  imper 
sonation  of  justice;  and  the  sub 
lime  victory  achieved  loaded  even 
the  conquered  with  all  the  rights 
that  freedom  can  bestow. 

ROSCOK  CONKLING  was  an  abso 
lutely  honest  man. 

Honesty  is  the  oak  around  which 
all  other  virtues  cling.  Without 
that  they  fall,  and  groveling  die  in 
weeds  and  dust.  He  believed  that 
a  nation  should  discharge  its  obli 
gations.  He  knew  that  a  promise 
could  not  be  made  often  enough,  or 
emphatic  enough,  to  take  the  place 
of  payment.  He  felt  that  the  prom 
ise  of  the  government  was  the  prom 
ise  of  every  citizen  —  that  a  national 


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obligation  was  a  personal  debt,  and 
that  no  possible  combination  of 
words  and  pictures  could  take  the 
place  of  coin.  He  uttered  the 
splendid  truth  that  "the  higher  ob 
ligations  among  men  are  not  set 
down  in  writing  signed  and  sealed, 
but  reside  in  honor."  He  knew 
that  repudiation  was  the  sacrifice  of 
honor --the  death  of  the  national 
soul.  He  knew  that  without  char 
acter,  without  integrity,  there  is  no 
wealth,  and  that  below  poverty,  be 
low  bankruptcy,  is  the  rayless  abyss 
of  repudiation.  He  upheld  the 
sacredness  of  contracts,  of  plighted 
national  faith,  and  helped  to  save 
and  keep  the  honor  of  his  native 
land.  This  adds  another  laurel  to 
his  brow. 

He  was  the    ideal    representative, 


faithful  and  incorruptible.  He  be 
lieved  that  his  constituents  and  his 
country  were  entitled  to  the  fruit  of 
his  experience,  to  his  best  and  high 
est  thought.  No  man  ever  held  the 
standard  of  responsibility  higher 
than  he.  He  voted  according  to  his 
judgment,  his  conscience.  He  made 
no  bargains  -  -  he  neither  bought 
nor  sold. 

To  correct  evils,  abolish  abuses 
and  inaugurate  reforms,  he  believed 
was  not  only  the  duty,  but  the  privi 
lege,  of  a  legislator.  He  neither 
sold  nor  mortgaged  himself.  He 
was  in  Congress  during  the  years 
of  vast  expenditure,  of  war  and 
waste-  -when  the  credit  of  the  na 
tion  was  loaned  to  individuals- 
when  claims  were  thick  as  leaves 
in  June,  when  the  amendment  of  a 


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statute,  the  change  of  a  single  word, 
meant  millions,  and  when  empires 
were  given  to  corporations.  He 
stood  at  the  summit  of  his  power- 
peer  of  the  greatest --a  leader  tried 
and  trusted.  He  had  the  tastes  of 
a  prince,  the  fortune  of  a  peasant, 
and  yet  he  never  swerved.  No 
corporation  was  great  enough  or 
rich  enough  to  purchase  him.  His 
vote  could  not  be  bought  "for  all 
the  sun  sees,  or  the  close  earth 
wombs,  or  the  profound  seas  hide." 
His  hand  was  never  touched  by  any 
bribe,  and  on  his  soul  there  never 
was  a  sordid  stain.  Poverty  was 
his  priceless  crown. 

Above  his  marvelous  intellect 
ual  gifts --above  all  place  he  ever 
reached, --above  the  ermine  he  re 
fused, --rises  his  integrity  like  some 


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great  mountain  peak --and  there  it 
stands,  firm  as  the  earth  beneath, 
pure  as  the  stars  above. 

He  was  a  great  lawyer.  He  un 
derstood  the  frame-work,  the  anat 
omy,  the  foundations  of  law ;  was 
familiar  with  the  great  streams  and 
currents  and  tides  of  authority. 

He  knew  the  history  of  legisla 
tion-  -the  principles  that  have  been 
settled  upon  the  fields  of  war.  He 
knew  the  maxims, —  those  crystalli 
zations  of  common  sense,  those  hand- 
grenades  of  argument.  He  was  not 
a  case-lawyer- -a  decision  index,  or 
an  echo ;  he  was  original,  thought 
ful  and  profound.  He  had  breadth 
and  scope,  resource,  learning,  logic, 
and  above  all,  a  sense  of  justice. 
He  was  painstaking  and  conscien 
tious —  anxious  to  know  the  facts  — 


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preparing  for  every  attack,  ready 
for  every  defense.  He  rested  only 
when  the  end  was  reached.  Dur 
ing  the  contest,  he  neither  sent  nor 
received  a  flag  of  truce.  He  was 
true  to  his  clients-  -making  their 
case  his.  Feeling  responsibility,  he 
listened  patiently  to  details,  and  to 
his  industry  there  were  only  the 
limits  of  time  and  strength.  He 
was  a  student  of  the  Constitution. 
He  knew  the  boundaries  of  State 
and  Federal  jurisdiction,  and  no 
man  was  more  familiar  with  those 
great  decisions  that  are  the  peaks 
and  promontories,  the  headlands  and 
the  beacons,  of  the  law. 

He  was  an  orator,- -earnest,  logi 
cal,  intense  and  picturesque.  He 
laid  the  foundation  with  care,  with 
accuracy  and  skill,  and  rose  by 


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4 'cold  gradation  and  well-balanced 
form"  from  the  corner-stone  of  state 
ment  to  the  domed  conclusion.  He 
filled  the  stage.  He  satisfied  the 
eye-  -the  audience  was  his.  He 
had  that  indefinable  thing  called 
presence.  Tall,  commanding,  erect 
-ample  in  speech,  graceful  in  com 
pliment,  Titanic  in  denunciation, 
rich  in  illustration,  prodigal  of  com 
parison  and  metaphor  —  and  his 
sentences,  measured  and  rhythmi 
cal,  fell  like  music  on  the  enrap 
tured  throng. 

He  abhorred  the  Pharisee,  and 
loathed  all  conscientious  fraud.  He 
had  a  profound  aversion  for  those 
who  insist  on  putting  base  motives 
back  of  the  good  deeds  of  others. 
He  wore  no  mask.  He  knew  his 
friends — his  enemies  knew  him. 


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He  had  no  patience  with  pre 
tense  -  -  with  patriotic  reasons  for 
unmanly  acts.  He  did  his  work 
and  bravely  spoke  his  thought. 

Sensitive  to  the  last  degree,  he 
keenly  felt  the  blows  and  stabs  of 
the  envious  and  obscure-  -of  the 
smallest,  of  the  weakest-  -but  the 
greatest  could  not  drive  him  from 
conviction's  field.  He  would  not 
stoop  to  ask  or  give  an  explanation. 
He  left  his  words  and  deeds  to 
justify  themselves. 

He  held  in  light  esteem  a  friend 
who  heard  with  half-believing  ears 
the  slander  of  a  foe.  He  walked 
a  highway  of  his  own,  and  kept 
the  company  of  his  self-respect.  He 
would  not  turn  aside  to  avoid  a 
foe- -to  greet  or  gain  a  friend. 

In   his  nature  there   was  no  com- 


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promise.  To  him  there  were  but 
two  paths --the  right  and  wrong. 
He  was  maligned,  misrepresented 
and  misunderstood-  -but  he  would 
not  answer.  He  knew  that  char 
acter  speaks  louder  far  than  any 
words.  He  was  as  silent  then  as 
he  is  now- -and  his  silence,  better 
than  any  form  of  speech,  refuted 
every  charge. 

He  was  an  American-  -proud  of 
his  country,  that  was  and  ever  will 
be  proud  of  him.  He  did  not  find 
perfection  only  in  other  lands.  He 
did  not  grow  small  and  shrunken, 
withered  and  apologetic,  in  the  pres 
ence  of  those  upon  whom  greatness 
had  been  thrust  by  chance.  He 
could  not  be  overawed  by  dukes  or 
lords,  nor  flattered  into  vertebrate- 
less  subserviency  by  the  patronizing 


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smiles  of  kings.  In  the  midst  of 
conventionalities  he  had  the  feeling 
of  suffocation.  He  believed  in  the 
royalty  of  man,  in  the  sovereignty 
of  the  citizen,  and  in  the  matchless 
greatness  of  this  Republic. 

He  was  of  the  classic  mould  - 
a  figure  from  the  antique  world. 
He  had  the  pose  of  the  great  stat 
ues --the  pride  and  bearing  of  the 
intellectual  Greek,  of  the  conquering 
Roman,  and  he  stood  in  the  wide 
free  air,  as  though  within  his  veins 
there  flowed  the  blood  of  a  hundred 
kings. 

And  as  he  lived  he  died.  Proudly 
he  entered  the  darkness-  -or  the 
dawn-  -that  we  call  death.  Un 
shrinkingly  he  passed  beyond  our 
horizon,  beyond  the  twilight's  pur 
ple  hills,  beyond  the  utmost  reach 


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of  human  harm  or  help- -to  that 
vast  realm  of  silence  or  of  joy 
where  the  innumerable  dwell,  and 
he  has  left  with  us  his  wealth  of 
thought  and  deed- -the  memory  of 
a  brave,  imperious,  honest  man, 
who  bowed  alone  to  death. 

Mr.   HUSTED  said  : 

Mr.  CHAIRMAN.  —  I  move  that  the  thanks  of 
the  Legislature  be  tendered. to  the  Hon.  ROBERT 
G.  INGERSOLL,  for  the  masterly  oration  to  which 
we  have  listened,  and,  sir,  in  making  this  motion, 
I  am  confident  that  I  express  the  unanimous 
sentiment  of  this  body,  when  I  say  that  in  purity 
of  style,  in  poetic  expression,  in  cogency  of  state 
ment  and  brilliancy  of  rhetoric  it  stands  unri 
valed  among  the  eulogies  of  either  ancient  or 
modern  days.  As  effective  as  Demosthenes,  as 
polished  as  Cicero,  as  ornate  as  Burke,  as  schol 
arly  as  Gladstone,  the  orator  of  the  evening,  in 
surpassing  others,  has  eclipsed  himself. 

Senator   COCXIKSIIALI,  said  : 

Mr.   CHAIRMAN.  —  No    words    that   I    can    utter 


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will  add  to  the  able  and  eloquent  eulogy  pro 
nounced  by  Mr.  INGKKSOU,  upon  the  life,  char 
acter  and  services  of  ROSCOE  CONK  LI  NO. 

It  is  indeed  a  worthy  tribute  by  one  of  Amer 
ica's  most  gifted  orators  to  one  of  the  foremost 
men  of  his  time. 

On  behalf  of  the  Senate  and  Assembly,  I 
second  the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  West- 
chester. 


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CONCURRENT   RESOLUTIONS. 


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January  17,  1889. 

Resolved  (if  the  Senate  concur),  That  there  be  printed  under  the 
direction  of  the  Clerks  of  the  Senate  and  Assembly,  four  thousand 
(4,000)  copies  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Legislature  and  the  memorial 
oration  of  Col.  Robert  G.  Ingersoll,  on  the  death  of  ex-Senator  Ros- 
COE  CONKLIXG,  for  the  use  of  the  members  of  the  Legislature,  and 
one  thousand  (1,000)  copies  for  the  officers  and  reporters,  to  be  dis 
tributed  by  the  Clerks  of  each  House. 

By  order  of  the  Assembly, 

C.   A    CHICK ERING,    Clerk. 


STATE  OF  N'KW  YORK  : 

In  Assembly,  January  18,  1889. 
The    amendments  of     the   Senate   duly 
concurred  in. 

By  order  of  the  Assembly. 

C.  A.  CHICK  ERING, 

Clerk. 


STATE  OF  NEW  YORK  : 

In  Senate,  January  18,  1889. 
Passed  with  the  following  amendment : 
Strike    out    "4,000"   and    insert    "8,000." 
Strike  out  "1,000"  and  insert  "2,000." 
By  order  of  the  Senate. 

JOHN  S.  KENYON, 

Clerk. 


J;n  Senate: 

January  18,  1889. 

Resolved  (if  the  Assembly  concur),  That  of  the  8,000  extra  copies  of 
the  CONKLING  MEMORIAL  ordered  printed,  that  1,000  copies  be  dis 
tributed  to  the  State  officers. 


STATE  OF  NEW  YORK  : 

In  Assembly,  January  21,  1889. 
Concurred  in  without  amendment. 
By  order  of  the  Assembly. 

C.  A.  CHICKERING, 

Clerk 


STATE  OF  NEW  YORK  : 

In  Senate,  January  18,  188. 
The  foregoing  resolution  was  passed. 
By  order  of  the  Senate. 

JOHN  S.  KENYON, 

Clerk. 


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